ADVA Names Ron Martin as Chief Strategy Officer

ADVA Optical Networking has appointed Ron Martin as Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer (CMSO) and president of all ADVA Optical Networking North American subsidiaries. Martin takes over the role of CMSO and president from Brian McCann, who was the founding president of ADVA Optical Networking North America in 1996 and has been an officer of the company since 2000. McCann will remain with the company and serve in the newly created position of senior...

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Streamcore Debuts Managed Services Platform for Service Providers

Streamcore, a start-up based in Paris with close ties to France Telecom Labs, introduced StreamSense 5.1, a multi-tenant platform for service providers to offer next generation managed services for application performance and monitoring over MPLS or IP VPNs.Streamcore's core technology uses fast packet inspection to examine both a packet's IP address and session behavior. The system then provides an automated view of application and network traffic....

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Nevis Strengthens Identity-based Policy Enforcement

Nevis Networks announced a major new operating software release for its LANenforcer LAN security solutions. The Nevis LANenforcer family integrates comprehensive LAN security functions into an ASIC-based security policy processing engine that provides deep inspection of every packet to ensure data integrity and confidentiality, threat containment and user accountability. The appliances integrate identity-based user access control, deep threat defense...

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Telefónica Reaches 160.2M Mobile, 9.6M Broadband Lines

Telefónica reported continued growth in revenues (EUR 42.014 billion, up 8.6%), OIBDA (24.5%), OI (51%) and net profit (51%) compared with the same period a year earlier. Revenues at Telefónica Latinoamérica climbed 12.6%, those of Telefónica España rose 4.9%, while revenues at Telefónica O2 Europe increased 4.9%.Some highlights for the quarter:The total customer base grew 11.6% to 218 million access lines (mobile + fixed), of which 126.5 million...

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Fulcrum Selects Spirent TestCenter for 10-Gigabit Ethernet Testing

Fulcrum Microsystems, a fabless semiconductor company focused on developing low latency 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch/router chips for next-generation networking systems, has selected Spirent TestCenter's 10GBASE -- CX4 test system to demonstrate the packet forwarding capability and low latency of its new FocalPoint FM4000 router chip. The Spirent TestCenter 10GbE solution stress tests and benchmarks the performance of switches, link aggregators and routers to ensure that network solutions meet or exceed the industry specifications. It can measure...

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Sun Showcases its Petascale Constellation

Sun Microsystems introduced its Sun Constellation System -- an open petascale computing environment that combines ultra-dense, high performance compute, networking, storage and software into an integrated general purpose system. The Sun Constellation System runs the Solaris Operating System (OS), Linux and Windows and is capable of scaling from departmental clusters to the largest supercomputer configurations. The Sun Constellation System comprises...

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ADC to Acquire Century Man Communication for Distribution in China

ADC plans to acquire Century Man Communication, a leading provider of communication distribution frame solutions in China, for $55 million in cash, at close, plus contingent cash payments of up to $15 million during the 36 months following the close of the transaction, based on meeting agreed upon financial performance metrics.ADC said the acquisition would provide it with four key benefits: (1) accelerate ADC's growth potential in China, (2) expand its product offerings, (3) add additional low-cost manufacturing facilities in China, and (4) provide...

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Qualcomm Announces Lower Cost, More Energy Efficient HSDPA Chips

Qualcomm introduced its lower cost "Mobile Station Modem" (MSM) MSM6246 HSDPA and MSM6290 HSUPA chipsets. The products, sampling now, are designed to enable devices that break new price barriers for HSDPA and HSUPA handsets. The two chipsets also feature new power-saving features that will enable better performance and longer battery life, with standby time of more than 37 days, according to the company.The MSM6246 chipset will support 3.6 Mbps HSDPA. The MSM6290 HSUPA chipset supports speeds up to 7.2 Mbps on the downlink and 5.76 Mbps on the...

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Limelight Appoints New Chief Legal Officer

Limelight Networks appointed Philip C. Maynard as senior vice president, chief legal officer and secretary, a position in which he will have responsibility for all domestic and international legal matters. This will include corporate governance, intellectual property, including Limelight Networks' expanding patent program, trademarks and other intellectual properties; litigation support, and contract management.Maynard previously served at FileNet Corporation. He has also served as chief legal officer or general counsel for SRS Labs, Inc., Wonderware...

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ShoreTel Expands its Enterprise VoIP Solution

ShoreTel released an enhanced version of its unified communications solution and introduced two new telephones: the ShorePhone IP 265 (US$369), which features a high-contrast color display, and the ShorePhone IP 115 (US$159), an enhanced entry-level speakerphone.ShoreTel's enterprise communications system combines embedded switch-based appliances with a unique distributed software architecture.The new release, ShoreTel 7.5, integrates with Microsoft...

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Skype Chooses On2 Technologies' Video Compression

On2 Technologies announced that a new version of its TrueMotion VP7 video compression is used in Skype 3.6 for Windows to help deliver High Quality Video calling to Skype users. http://www.on2.c...

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NetXen Adds iWARP Support to 10GbE Interfaces

NetXen, a start-up offering 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) Intelligent NIC technology, announced iWARP support for its NICs. NetXen's iWARP solution supports uDAPL (User Direct Access Programming Library), popular MPI (Message Passing Interface) implementations and is OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) 1.2 compliant. Support for the OFED 1.2 software stack is already integrated into major versions of Linux distributions from Novell and Red Hat."Gigabit Ethernet is the most popular cluster interconnect today," said David Pulling, president...

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Microsoft to Acquire Musicwave, Gaining Foothold with Mobile Operators

Microsoft plans to acquire Musiwave SA, a Paris-based provider of mobile music entertainment services to operators and media companies. The acquisition would bring Musiwave's relationships with music labels, device makers and mobile operators that deliver digital entertainment to consumers, together with Microsoft's Connected Entertainment technologies and services, including Windows Mobile, Zune, MSN and Windows Live. Financial terms were not disclosed.Musiwave,...

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Motorola Invests in ViVOtech for NFC Mobile Payment Tech

Motorola Ventures has made an equity investment in ViVOtech, a start-up offering contactless and mobile phone payment technologies. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.ViVOtech's platform is designed for collaboration among issuers, mobile operators and technology providers to deliver the most intuitive and integrated consumer experience across a range of new customer services.The companies said Near Field Communication (NFC) technology...

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Netronome Gains License to Intel's High-End Network Processors

Netronome Systems, a start-up based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania focused on high-performance packet analysis solutions. announced a technology licensing, sales and marketing agreement will Intel focused on its IXP28XX product line of network processors. Under the exclusive deal, Netronome is licensed to continue sales and support of the Intel IXP2805 and the Intel IXP2855 network processors in new designs. In addition, Netronome is developing a next-generation...

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Gear6 Caching Appliance Delivers Over 872,000 I/O Operations Per Second

Gear6, a start-up based in Mountain View, California, reported breakthrough I/O performance results for large scale network-based caching designed for massive compute grid.Gear6 said throughput testing of its CACHEfx appliance reached 872,291 IOPS with an average response time of 0.53 milliseconds and sustained bandwidth of 2.8GB per second. Bandwidth intensive testing achieved a sustained 5GB per second while delivering 162,292 IOPS. The company's...

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Sandia National Labs Deploys Woven's Ethernet Fabric

Sandia National Laboratories is deploying Woven Systems' EFX 1000 Ethernet Fabric Switch in a 128-node compute cluster. Woven's EFX 1000 delivered sustained 10 Gbps Ethernet throughput in a large remote direct memory access (RDMA) cluster during testing by Sandia at its Livermore, California laboratory. Financial terms were not disclosed.The Ethernet Fabric utilizes Woven's Active Congestion Management technology with latency-minimizing routing...

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Woven Systems Enhances its Ethernet Fabric Architecture

Woven Systems, a start-up based in Santa Clara, California, is extending its flagship EFX 1000 Ethernet Fabric Switch with a 48-port Gigabit Ethernet "Top of Rack" edge switch and new fiber optic interfaces.The Woven Ethernet Fabric architecture leverages standard 10Gig Ethernet technology with custom-ASICs that deliver Active Congestion Management to create a multi-path, Layer 2 meshed fabric for high-performance computing clusters (HPC) and enterprise...

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